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Just wanted to post a picture of two of my turtle.
I keep them in 500 gallon tanks with other pinks,
leucisitic and regular colored alligator snappers,
of the same size.

Thanks for sharing, cool looking snappers!
Can you post a photo of these tanks?
Mike

The tanks are commercial plastic tanks with a drain at the bottom
for easy cleaning. I cut off the tops of the tanks about 18" down.
This part I use to raise plants,snails,feeder fish, and tadpoles in. The frogs love to lay their eggs in these so I always have tadpoles for my turtles to eat. Tank are about 3.5' X 4' X 4.5'
I have had the turtles in these tanks since they were only a few days old. When they were small I put 25 turtles in each tank. Now I only keep a few turtles in each tank ,depending on the size and type of turtles. I have more pictures in the photo gallery.

very nice, can you tell us a little about the history of your collection? Was the leucistic one pink at one time?
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1.1 Womas, 1.0 Australian Olive Python, 1.0 Centralian Carpet Python, 1.1 Cape York Spotted Pythons, 1.0 Australian Water Python, 1.0 Albino Green Burmese, 1.1 Loxocemus bicolor (New World "Pythons" ), 1.2 Peruvian Red-Tail Boas, 2.1 Hog Island Boas, 0.1 Belem Brazilian Red- Tail Boa, 0.0.1 North American Wood Turtle, 0.0.2 European Pond Turtles, 1.0 Leucistic Alligator Snapper, 0.0.1 FL Red Belly, 0.0.1 Concentric Diamondback Terrapin, 0.0.1 Marine Toad, 1.1 Crested Geckos, 1.0 Yellow Ackie, 1.0 Yellow Bearded Dragon

It's hard to say because I had some as hatchlings that had that cream color.
I have pinks that are still very pink. Then I have the light pinks that have a cream color on them but they are still mostly pink. Some of my creams are very light with very light shells or
golden shells. I will post more pictures of these turtles later in
the photo gallery.

This is one of my pinks with a golden shell.

That one looks a lot like mine. Where did you get yours?

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1.1 Womas, 1.0 Australian Olive Python, 1.0 Centralian Carpet Python, 1.1 Cape York Spotted Pythons, 1.0 Australian Water Python, 1.0 Albino Green Burmese, 1.1 Loxocemus bicolor (New World "Pythons" ), 1.2 Peruvian Red-Tail Boas, 2.1 Hog Island Boas, 0.1 Belem Brazilian Red- Tail Boa, 0.0.1 North American Wood Turtle, 0.0.2 European Pond Turtles, 1.0 Leucistic Alligator Snapper, 0.0.1 FL Red Belly, 0.0.1 Concentric Diamondback Terrapin, 0.0.1 Marine Toad, 1.1 Crested Geckos, 1.0 Yellow Ackie, 1.0 Yellow Bearded Dragon

I got all of my pink and leucistic from a friend in the South about
two years ago. My turtles didn't come from John Richards but he did
come down to see them about six months ago.
You have a great looking turtle. Has his color changed much?

Here are some pics of mine. As you can see he hasn't changed much. The stripes on his face are more pronounced and he might be a little lighter, his shell seems to be getting lighter.

Fall 2003

Fall 2004

Spring 2005

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1.1 Womas, 1.0 Australian Olive Python, 1.0 Centralian Carpet Python, 1.1 Cape York Spotted Pythons, 1.0 Australian Water Python, 1.0 Albino Green Burmese, 1.1 Loxocemus bicolor (New World "Pythons" ), 1.2 Peruvian Red-Tail Boas, 2.1 Hog Island Boas, 0.1 Belem Brazilian Red- Tail Boa, 0.0.1 North American Wood Turtle, 0.0.2 European Pond Turtles, 1.0 Leucistic Alligator Snapper, 0.0.1 FL Red Belly, 0.0.1 Concentric Diamondback Terrapin, 0.0.1 Marine Toad, 1.1 Crested Geckos, 1.0 Yellow Ackie, 1.0 Yellow Bearded Dragon